Number of half-empty Chicago public schools doubles, yet lawmakers want to extend school closing moratorium – Wirepoints
April 19, 2024
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A set of state lawmakers want to extend CPS’ current school closing moratorium to February 1, 2027 – the same year CPS is set to transition to a fully-elected school board. That means schools like Manley High School, with capacity for more than 1,000 students but enrollment of just 78, can’t be closed for anther three years. The school spends $45,000 per student, but just 2.4% of students read at grade level.
Hopefully, all media will get the message, in Illinois, too.
Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about Illinois’ highest-in-the-nation property taxes, why lawmakers don’t want to touch the tax’s cost drivers, just how much Illinoisans’ tax burden has grown over the decades, why Gov. Pritzker failed to meet his promise to reform property taxes, and more.
School is done for the year, especially out here in the Southwest suburbs. It just makes me ill that these teachers and administrative people are getting paid. Not bad hey, 180 days minus 10 weeks if classes don’t resume. 130 days of work give or take a few days.
The government is now paying current employees to not work, and they’re also paying former employees to not work too, through pensions. What a scam.
The students aren’t learning anything in school anyway